The Pax Reflector is a application inspection tool, which can look into your running application without any special debugger. Although Pax Reflector can quite easily be used in any application, its use in OSGi environments make it even more powerful as it can be installed after the start of the main application and yet do the inspection. This could be very important when a faulty condition has occured and one need to take a closer look but can't restart the application with the debugger interface enabled.

Other resources

• Pax Reflector - Details — Details about how to use Pax Reflector.

• Maven site — Maven generated documentation
• User Guide — How to use Pax Reflector

Issue tracker

Issues, bugs, and feature requests can be submitted to the issue tracking system.

System requirements (for OSGi deployment)

• any OSGI R4 compilant framework
• Pax Web
• Pax Web Extender

Manual installation (under OSGi)

• Download the latest version from http://repository.ops4j.org/maven2/org/ops4j/pax/reflector/:
  • pax-reflector-service
  • pax-reflector-servlet
  • pax-reflector-typehandlers
  • pax-reflector-html
• Deploy the downloaded bundle to your preferred OSGi framework

Pax Runner installation

pax-run --profiles=web \
mvn:org.ops4j.pax.reflector/pax-reflector-service \
mvn:org.ops4j.pax.reflector/pax-reflector-servlet \
mvn:org.ops4j.pax.reflector/pax-reflector-types \
mvn:org.ops4j.pax.reflector/pax-reflector-html \
mvn:org.ops4j.pax.web-extender/pax-web-ex-whiteboard

Non OSGi deployment

User guide (see resources) provides details about how to deploy Pax Reflector in non OSGi environments.

Source code

https://scm.ops4j.org/repos/ops4j/projects/pax/reflector ( or browse via FishEye )
This project builds with Apache Maven and uses Apache Felix's maven-bundle-plugin, and Peter Krien's bnd tool.